Sherry Coutu
co-Chair of Silicon Valley Comes to the UK

Sherry Coutu is a former CEO and angel investor who now serves on the boards of companies, charities and universities.

She chairs Artfinder and is a non-executive member of Cambridge University (Finance Board), Cambridge Assessment, Cambridge University Press and NESTA Investments. She also serves on the Advisory Board of Linkedin.com.

As an angel investor, she loves working with great entrepreneurs to solve problems that matter and specialises in consumer internet, information services and education. She has made angel investments in more than 35 companies and holds investments in 2 venture capital firms.

She was voted by TechCrunch as the best CEO mentor / advisor in Europe in Nov 2010. in May 2011, she was voted by Wired magazine as one the top 25 'most influential people in the wired world', and one of the top ten most influential investors and women.